Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott was hopeful the conference could reach a carriage agreement with DirecTV after AT&T – one of the league's biggest corporate partners – merged with the satellite distributor earlier this summer. However, talks broke down about a week ago, and there's no timetable for them to resume. MARK J. TERRILL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott was hopeful the conference could reach a carriage agreement with DirecTV after AT&T – one of the league's biggest corporate partners – merged with the satellite distributor earlier this summer. However, talks broke down about a week ago, and there's no timetable for them to resume. MARK J. TERRILL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

That was the message Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott delivered to reporters at the Coliseum shortly before kickoff of the Stanford-USC game Saturday night.

Scott was hopeful the conference could reach a carriage agreement with DirecTV after AT&T – one of the league’s biggest corporate partners – merged with the satellite distributor earlier this summer.

However, talks broke down about a week ago, and there’s no timetable for them to resume.

“There’s no discussions ongoing, so I’m not anticipating that we’ll have a deal with them,” Scott said. “I’m disappointed. We have a comprehensive partnership with AT&T, plus they’re carrying (Pac-12 Networks on) U-verse. I was hopeful that a reasonable deal could be done. I’m certainly disappointed that wasn’t possible.

“When I teed up what it would have taken to do a deal and brought it back to our schools, they just weren’t comfortable with it.”

Scott said the league’s members unanimously declined AT&T’s proposal. Scott didn’t get into specifics, but he did say:

“We’ve got partnerships (for distribution) with over 70 different companies that pay the same rates and give us a lot of exposure. I think our schools have a lot of confidence in the model that we have, the service that we’re providing, and can’t do something dramatically different for one that we’re not doing for the 70 other partners.”

Scott remains confident that the business model for the network – the Pac-12 has complete ownership – is in the best long-term interest of the league. He cited the rapidly changing media landscape and said it would be advantageous to be “masters of our own destiny” and have “the flexibility to adapt.”

“Even if we’re frustrated right now,” Scott said, “three years from now, I think the industry’s going to look very different from where it is today.”

DirecTV is the second-largest provider in the Los Angeles/Orange County market. USC’s first two games appeared on Pac-12 Networks. UCLA has yet to have a game on P12N, but each conference team is expected to make at least two appearances per season.

CORNERBACK SHUFFLE

Senior cornerback Kevon Seymour did not play because of a knee injury, leading to freshman Iman Marshall making his first career start. Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan took notice and took advantage of Marshall on a handful of occasions.

On the first play of the second quarter, Hogan hit Francis Owusu for a 41-yard pass down the right sideline. Marshall had near-perfect coverage but couldn’t make the play.

Later in the quarter, Marshall and safety John Plattenburg had tight end Austin Hooper bracketed. But Hooper came down with the ball for a 24-yard gain to the 1-yard line. Remound Wright scored on the next play to trim Stanford’s deficit to 21-17.

Late in the third quarter, Trenton Irwin hauled in a 10-yard pass against Marshall on third-and-5. Wright eventually scored again from the 1 to give Stanford a 38-28 lead.

Seymour’s status for next week’s game at Arizona State is uncertain.

QUICK HITS

Linebacker Lamar Dawson played for the first time since October 2013 and was credited with six tackles. However, he had a chance to sack Hogan and missed him. Dawson, who missed all of last season because of a knee injury and the first two games because of broken ribs, said afterward that he felt rusty. … Jake Olson, the blind long snapper from Orange Lutheran High, was in uniform for a USC game for the first time. An ESPN cameraman trailed Olson during early warmups. … Actor and USC supporter Will Ferrell led the team out of the tunnel.

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